"Alina! WAKE. UP. Ugh, seriously…." Kai was banging on my door, urging me to wake up . It was Monday morning, and seeing as it was the middle of December, very chilly. I slept with numerous blankets and still got cold. If only I could have Declan cuddle up with me…I sighed and got out of bed, quickly running a brush through my hair throwing on a pair of skinny jeans and a sweater. "ALINA-!" Kai was still banging around the house like he did every morning. I always had trouble waking up, and it just never seemed to get any better, especially now that I was always so tired…

When I got downstairs, Kai forced me to take a vitamin and attempt to get me to eat something. He acted more like our mother than she herself did. If it wasn't for him, the house would be falling apart. Mom was always at work, and only came home for brief periods of time; so that left Kai to cook and clean. I tried to help, but he always got frustrated with me and said I wasn't doing it right- maybe he really WAS a girl.

Sense Kai didn't have a car yet, he ended up taking mine, and I ended up riding along with Declan. He always seemed to get there 10 minutes before Kai started his rampage through the house- which always seemed to be around 6:45 or so- and got to witness our early morning spats. Kai trying to shove food down my throat, Kai trying to finish homework he was supposed to do the night before, me yelling at him for not doing it. Ah, the fun of having a brother.

~DECLAN'S POV~

She was getting smaller and smaller. Every day. Kai was always yelling at her to eat, trying to sneak….vitamin supplements into her food. They always seemed to be having secret conversations that I couldn't be let in on. I was scared for her, and for him as well. It wasn't just me- we were both losing her, but to what, I haven't a clue.

We arrived to school a couple minutes before the first bell rang, so we had to hurry to class. "Alina, are you alright? You seem….distant." She looked up at me and smiled, her eyes seeming to have an empty glow to them. "I'm alright, just tired." I chuckled. "That's funny, seeing as you do nothing but sleep."

"Hey! I do not! I just sleep a lot on certain day…" She looked mad- but it was so damn cute. I loved teasing her. "Ah, we have to get to class, we'll save this for later love." Her cheeks blushed a crimson red, and she looked away, embarrassed. I laughed again, and she looked up. "What's so funny!"

"Ohh…nothing." She smacked my arm, though she didn't do much damage. Alina only seemed to come up to the middle of my chest, and could barely reach the top of my forehead with her hands without standing on her toes. I sighed. "Lets get to class, now shall we?"

This math class was unbearably boring. I knew everything either way. And besides, the only thing I could pay attention to was Alina. She sat doodling in her notebooks- drawing flowers. Her and Kai were both always looking for some sort of red flower wherever we went; I even caught them looking it up on the internet sometimes. When I asked them about it, they always gave me the same reply. "It's for a friend"

"It's just…a very special flower." " We need it for something, ok?" It looked like some sort of Japanese flower, a bright, blooming red flower. If Alina's eyes could be preserved somehow, it would be in that flower. And by hell, if getting a hold of it meant that I would be able to look into her eyes for the rest of my life, I would do it.

~KAI'S POV~

This school was treacherously horrible. I absolutely HATED it. I got lovely little noted in my locker calling me an "emo faggot", and annoying ones from others, proclaiming their love to me. Silly little girls; I knew I was sexy, but come on- they didn't even know me. Besides, all I cared about right now was making sure Alina got better before Declan or our Mother found out she was sick. She has been suffering from Bulimia Nervosa for as long as I can remember. There were brief periods of time where she seemed to be getting better, but then as soon as we turned our backs, she started up again. She told me she hasn't done anything for the whole two years I have been gone- but could she really have been clean THAT long? I first noticed it when we were ten years old. At first we though she had a stomach problem; we wanted to believe it so badly. Then when we were 12, they gave her an actual diagnoses. But things were hell for the next year and a half.

~FLASHBACK~

"Alina! Come on! Let's go to the beach!" It was the summer we both turned 14, and the Cali beaches were surprisingly quiet. It was around twilight, and this was the time we liked to go down to the beach to collect seashells and thins like that. "I'm coming! Kaaaiiiii don't leave without me!" She was looking for her sandals when I opened the door, threatening to leave if she didn't hurry up. "One…two….two and a half…." She slammed into me. I reached down to steady her. Her shoulder-length hair was sticking to her neck, some of it stuck in the bend of my elbow from when I caught her, yanking and pulling out of her scalp every time I moved. "Oh- hold on. " I plucked the hair away from me as gently as I could before turning the door handle and running down to the beach. It was a perfect night out- the stars were bright, and the waves looked absolutely magnificent. Alina tripped more than once running away from crabs, and the pile of seashells we collected was impressive. "He, Kai! Come her, quick!" She waved me over, then ran behind a big, grassy sand dune. "Ah, Alina wait! You don't know what's back there! Damn it…" I cursed under my breath, then ran after her. "Aline what-" She wasn't there. Shit, where did she go? Panic was welling up inside my chest. There was a cave back here, and the current from the inside was very strong. The rocks were sharp….oh no. She probably got swallowed in. Shit. No, no no! "ALINA! ALINA WHERE ARE YOU! ALINAAAA!" I ran through the water to the cave. It was dark our, and there was no way she knew where she was going. I spun around wildly, tears stinging my cheeks. I felt a tug on my shoulder. I turned around in shock. "Kai. It's fine….why are you crying? Kai….?" Reliefe swept over me. I picked her up and squeezed her to death. Don't you EVER do that to me again, do you hear me? Lets get out of here." I looked into the mouth of the cave, staring into it's deep blackness. "But Kai, I found one of our flowers! Look!" She was holding out the red flower to me. "Oh…where did you find this?" The petals were smooth, and the fragrance coming off of it was sweet. "On the other side of the cave. There was only one left…I thought you might want to have it…..Kai? Why are you crying again? Kai-!" I burried my face in her shoulder and squeezed her as tight as I possibly could. "Don't go back there unless you're with me, ok? " "Oh…ok. I'm sorry…" I sighed. "It's fine, lets just go back to the house now."

When we got back to the house, I made dinner for us. Alina claimed she wasn't hungry, but I knew she was, so I made her eat anyways. God knows where our parents were- they were never home. The only time they were ever home was if it was for doctors appointments, or holidays and birthdays. It was almost as if we were orphan children with an unlimited amount of money. Not that our parents didn't love us, it's just that they were always busy. We were both worn out from the day, so we went to bed early. Sleep washed over me quickly, my eyes closing as soon as I hit the pillow.

That night I dreamed of flowers. Our special flower was blooming everywhere- all over the city. But then I started to hear coughing. The flower was killing Alina. A poisonous gas was released from the flowers. She fell over, coughing up blood and-

I awoke with a start. I heard coughing from down the hall. I saw a light under my door. Alina.

I ran to the bathroom, and opened the door. Alina was hunched over the toilet, her hair covered in something red. Her fingers were covered with vomit, and more of the red stuff. I soon realized the red stuff was blood. She didn't seem to care whether or not I was in here. She stuck her fingers down her throat again, nothing but blood coming up this time. But…..it didn't stop. The blood kept pouring out of her mouth, running down her chin and covering the front of her shirt. She reached her fingers up again. I was frozen to the spot, until I realized what she was doing. "Alina! Stop that! We have to get you to a hospital!" I knelt down next to her, ripping her hands away from her mouth, rushing her to the sink to wash off her hands. "Kai…it hurts….but it's not gone yet…" She sobbed into my shoulder, coughing up more blood. I grabbed a towel and held it to her mouth, running to one of our cars and sticking her in the backseat. (It didn't occur to me that I could call a taxi, sense our parents weren't home.) I drove to the hospital as best I could, nearly crashing into every over sign and car on the way there. I didn't even bother to park, instead just leaving the car idling out in front. The ambulance guys were sitting on the front of the sidewalk, and when they realized what was going on, they came rushing over. "Hey kid? What they hell do you think you're doing? You do realize you can't leave that car- wait how old are you kid-?" I grabbed Alina and screamed in the guys face. "SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP! Let me by, now!" I didn't wait for an answer, instead running into the ER, right up to the front desk. My words were muffled behind tears. "Now hunny, calm down. I'll call someone out right away. Everything's going to be fine." At least this lady was nicer. They rushed Alina onto a wheely bed, and took me into one of the offices to tell them what happened. So I told them the whole story, about her disease, about the past of it, and about what I saw. The doctor looked at me after writing everything down. "Son, you're one brave boy. Your sister will be just fine. She's very lucky to have a brother like you. "

~END OF FB~

"Hey! Kai! Hellloooooo!" A pale white hand waved in front of my face, or attempted to at least. I looked down, Alina. "Kai, why are you crying….?" I shook my head and wiped my eyes with my sleeve. "It's nothing, let's just go home, ok?" She looked at me skeptically. "Ok…."